On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 10:39:11AM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hi, > > I live in UK and have a UK QWERTY physical keyboard, but will have to write > a low of documents in German with umlauts, Eszet and so on. > > As you can see from picture: > > https://i.ibb.co/pnPt0qS/Screenshot-at-2022-12-29-10-29-15.png > > I have quite a choice. Will the standard German do the job? > > Incidentally, there's a "QWERTY" option. Is that one used much in Germany? > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen
That depemds on your needs and software. For the occasional foreign
character, I like to use X's compose facility. I mapped the compose
key to CAPS LOCK (who needs that, right?), and then I can, for example
do COMPOSE + < + 3 to get ♥, or COMPOSE + , + c to get ç. The nice
thing is that the sequences are somewhat mnemonic, you can extend
them, and they don't contradict what is on your key labels.
This gets me along for the occasional French text on my German layout
keyboard.
If, on the contrary, you are typing blind or a totally different
language, there is the group: I can change my whole layout to
Greek by pushing both shift keys at once. This is in my ~/.xsessionrc
# cf. /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
setxkbmap -model pc105 \
-layout "de,el" \
-variant "deadtilde," \
-option "compose:caps" \
-option "altwin:alt_super_win" \
-option "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" \
-option "grp:shifts_toggle"
Of course, you'd have to adjust it to your own keaboard layout. And
to convince your X session to read your ~/.xsessionrc. And to find
out whether your desktop environment approves ov you playing with
such dangerous things [1]. But then it works :)
Cheers
[1] I solved that by getting rid of the DE, but not everyone will
like that
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